Live without thinking about tomorrow

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Movie
German title Live without thinking about tomorrow
Original title Kal Ho Naa Ho
Country of production India
original language English ; Hindi ; Punjabi ; Gujarati
Publishing year 2003
length 187 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Nikhil Advani
script Niranjan Iyengar
Karan Johar
production Karan Johar
Yash Johar
music Shankar Mahadevan
Loy Mendonsa
Ehsaan Noorani
camera Anil Mehta
cut Sanjay Sankla
occupation
synchronization

Live and don't think about tomorrow (original title: Kal Ho Naa Ho, Hindi , कल हो ना हो, kal ho nā ho, translated: Maybe there is no tomorrow , also known in Germany as the Indian Love Story ) is an Indian drama by Nikhil Advani from 2003. The main roles are played by Shah Rukh Khan , Preity Zinta and Saif Ali Khan . The film is considered one of the most successful Bollywood films.

action

Naina Kapur lives in New York with her mother, grandmother and siblings . Since her father took his own life, the family has been out of balance both financially and personally. Naina is forced to mediate between her quarrelsome grandmother and depressed mother, to look after her younger siblings and to supervise the finances at the same time. With all the efforts to keep her family together, there is little time for her very own life. Hobbies and parties seem like a foreign word to them. But Naina has submitted to her fate and lives a joyless but disciplined life. Her college friend Rohit, a charming would-be womanizer, and the excited friend Sweetu are her only distraction, but they are rarely able to free them from their deep sadness.

All of a sudden, Naina's neighbor Aman appears in her life like a relief. He is bursting with joie de vivre and has made it into his head to give Naina some of it. However, his first attempts fail. He wins the hearts of the rest of the family with ease, but Naina is stubborn. Only a boisterous visit to the disco will the ice timidly melt. Aman notices that Rohit develops feelings for Naina. He gets it into his head to bring the two together to make Naina's happiness perfect. Naina, however, has already been enchanted by Aman's energy and has fallen head over heels in love with him. But this one seems to have a deep secret that keeps the two separate from each other. After Naina offends Rohit with her confession of love for Aman and wants to take a step on Aman, he tells her that he has been married for three years. Naina's newly gained vitality seems to be gone and the world collapses for her. But Aman is also devastated because his painful revelation was a lie. In truth, he has a heart condition and only has a few weeks to live. His last wish is to bring Naina together with Rohit.

Naina is slowly finding herself again. And Rohit too, with Aman's support, is taking new courage. They forge a plan: Rohit first gives Naina the cold shoulder and then confronts her with his feelings. It seems to be working and the two are getting closer. But Aman suffers more than he'd like to admit, and Naina's heart still belongs to him. Nevertheless, Naina accepts Rohit's marriage proposal.

Meanwhile, the family situation of the Kapurs comes to a head. The grandmother berates her daughter-in-law and adoptive granddaughter for being responsible for the death of her son. But Aman clarifies with a secret letter: Naina's father took his own life because he could not bear that his wife forgave him an affair and also adopted his illegitimate daughter. This revelation dissolves the grandmother's bitterness and brings the family back together. So they put all their energy into the wedding preparations.

Rohit and Naina's fulminant engagement party ends tragically: Aman collapses unnoticed and is taken to hospital. Meanwhile, Naina finally learns the truth about Aman: When she happens to meet Aman's supposed wife, she hears about his serious illness and the dizziness is blown. But despite all the emotional confusion, the hopelessness allows only one painful but sensible decision: Naina marries Rohit.

A short time later, Aman left his powers. Naina, Rohit and his friends and relatives say goodbye to him in the hospital with great sadness. With the last of his strength, Aman Rohit wrestles one last promise: In the next and in every subsequent life, Naina should belong to him.

20 years have passed and Naina and Rohit have a very happy marriage and even have a daughter.

synchronization

The synchronization was carried out on behalf of Bavaria Film Synchron in Munich, based on a dialogue book and directed by Dagmar Preuss .

role actor German speaker
Aman Mathur Shah Rukh Khan Pascal Breuer
Rohit Patel Saif Ali Khan Philipp Moog
Naina C. Kapur / Patel Preity Zinta Katrin Fröhlich
Jennifer Kapur Jaya Bachchan Katharina Lopinski
Lajjo Kapur Sushma Seth Ilona Grandke
Dr. Priya Sonali Bendre Claudia Lössl
Mother of Aman Reema Lagoo Dagmar Dempe
Camilla Simone Singh Solveig Duda
Gia Kapur Jhanak Shukla Veronika Neugebauer
guru Rajpal Yadav Tobias Lelle
Jasprite "Sweetu" Kapoor Delnaaz Paul Christine Stichler
Jaswinder "Jazz" Kapoor Lillete Dubey Ulrike Johannson

music

# song Singer length
1 Kal Ho Naa Ho Sonu nigam 5:27
2 Kuch To Hua Hai Shaan, Alka Yagnik 5:22
3 It's The Time To Disco Krishnakumar Kunnath, Shaan, Loy Mendonsa, Vasundhara Das 5:35
4th Maahi Ve Udit Narayan , Sonu Nigam , Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Madhushree 6:09
5 Pretty woman Shankar Mahadevan, Ravi "Rags" Khote 5:55
6th Kal Ho Naa Ho - Sad version Sonu Nigam , Alka Yagnik , Richa Sharma 5:38
7th Heartbeat Instrumental 4:28

Others

  • Kajol , probably Shah Rukh Khan's most famous film partner , has a very brief appearance as a dancer, as does Rani Mukerji . It is the third appearance of all three actors together in one film. Before that, all three could be seen in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai .
  • In Kal Ho Naa Ho a modified version of the song Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison is sung. In contrast to other Bollywood productions, royalties were paid for the music rights.
  • During the song Maahi Ve , one of the twins from Main Hoon Na dances as a background dancer.
  • Uday Chopra has a very small role. ("Day six.")
  • Actually, Kareena Kapoor was supposed to play the role of Naina. However, since she was asking for too high a fee, producer Johar decided on Preity Zinta.
  • Neetu Singh was supposed to play Jennifer Kapur.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Awards 2004 was Preity Zinta for her portrayal of Naina as Best Actress Award.

Saif Ali Khan and Jaya Bachchan won awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, respectively . Khan was also named Motolook of the Year.

Shankar Mahadevan , Loy Mendonsa and Ehsaan Noorani received the award for the best music .

Javed Akhtar was named Best Playback Singer for the same song for the lyrics to the title track Kal Ho Naa Ho and Sonu Nigam .

Further awards

Sanjay Sankla won the “Screen Weekly” for best film editing and Karan Johar for best screenplay. Saif Ali Khan was named Best Supporting Actor.

It also received the Zee Cine Award in the same category . Yash Johar also won a Popular Award , but for Kal Ho Naa Ho as the best song of the year.

Press reviews

  • “Seldom do Berlinale viewers come out of the cinema in such a good mood, beaming, laughing, gesticulating”. Berliner Morgenpost
  • "... real Bollywood with sprawling hip-hop and funny storytelling ideas." Tagesspiegel
  • "If you don't need a handkerchief, you never need one again." Www.perlentaucher.de
  • "A Bollywood epic of a different kind. Where there is usually a lot of fatigue in classic Indian cinema, this is about the real problems of young people who not only sing about their solutions, but also tackle them." Film # 01 (Zeitverlag special edition Berlinale)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Live and don't think about tomorrow in synchronkartei.de